Project Manager – Satcom Systems & Testbeds

GMV; Gilching; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Relocation package

Wellbeing program

Zusammenfassung

GMV is seeking experts in aerospace/telecommunications systems to manage complex engineering and technology-development projects from opportunity to delivery. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, customers, suppliers, and partners, ensuring governance, risk control, and continuous improvement.

Excellent communication and English skills are essential as you drive proposals, cost estimation, and contract negotiations while transitioning prototypes into reusable products and services.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience managing complex engineering, technology-development, product-development, or R&D projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and stakeholder management.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and external organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple interrelated technical workstreams while maintaining an integrated project perspective.
• Experience interacting with customers, suppliers, partners, and institutional stakeholders.
• Knowledge of proposal preparation, project acquisition, cost estimation, planning, and contract negotiation processes.
• Understanding of technology maturation and the transition from prototype developments into reusable products or operational services.
• Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, stakeholder-management, and technical-writing skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Aufgaben

• Manage SatCom technology-development and testbed projects throughout the complete lifecycle from planning to final delivery.
• Define, monitor, and control project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, opportunities, and stakeholder interfaces.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and project partners to ensure successful execution.
• Support business development activities including opportunity identification, bid/no-bid, proposal preparation, partner coordination, and contract-related activities.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and evolving project management processes.

Kenntnisse

Complex engineering programs

PM principles

Multidisciplinary coordination

Workstream management

Customer/supplier engagement

Proposal & cost estimation

Technology maturation

Communication & technical writing

English proficiency

Jobbeschreibung

WHAT CHALLENGE WILL YOU BE TAKING ON?

In our team you will be responsible for managing multidisciplinary technology-development and testbed projects throughout their full lifecycle, from opportunity identification and proposal preparation to development, integration, validation, demonstration, operational readiness, and final delivery.

Your main tasks will be:

• Manage SatCom technology-development and testbed projects throughout the complete project lifecycle, from planning and development to integration, validation, demonstration, and final delivery.


• Define, monitor, and control project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, opportunities, and stakeholder interfaces while ensuring effective project governance.


• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and project partners to ensure successful project execution.


• Support business development activities, including opportunity identification, bid/no-bid processes, proposal preparation, partner coordination, and contract-related activities.


• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, promoting best practices, and contributing to the evolution of project management processes.

WHAT DO WE NEED IN OUR TEAM?

We are looking for experts in Aerospace Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline with background and interest in Satcom technologies.

Here is what we are looking for:

• Proven experience managing complex engineering, technology-development, product-development, or R&D projects.


• Strong knowledge of project management principles, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, resource, and stakeholder management.


• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and external organizations.


• Ability to manage multiple interrelated technical workstreams while maintaining an integrated project perspective.


• Experience interacting with customers, suppliers, partners, and institutional stakeholders.


• Knowledge of proposal preparation, project acquisition, cost estimation, planning, and contract negotiation processes.


• Understanding of technology maturation and the transition from prototype developments into reusable products or operational services.


• Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, stakeholder-management, and technical-writing skills.


• Professional proficiency in English.

We will also value previous experience and knowledge in:

• Experience in space, SatCom, telecommunications, cybersecurity, defence, or critical infrastructure sectors, ideally within institutional environments (e.g., ESA, European Commission, EUSPA, EDA, DLR, BAAINBw, or similar).


• Experience managing competitive tenders, institutional proposals, international consortia, and large multi-partner collaborative projects.


• Knowledge of satellite communications, networking technologies, 5G/6G ecosystems, and test & validation environments, including verification, qualification, and operational testbeds.


• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and customer engagement skills, combined with a systems-thinking mindset and a strong focus on ownership, delivery, and continuous improvement.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Hybrid working model and 4 weeks per year of teleworking outside your usual geographical area.

Flexible start and finish times, and intensive working hours Fridays and in summer.

Personalized career plan development, training and language learning support.

National and international mobility. Do you come from another country? We can offer you a relocation package.

Competitive compensation with ongoing reviews, flexible compensation and discount on brands.

Wellbeing program: Health, dental and accident insurance; free fruit and coffee, physical, mental and financial health training, and much more!

In our recruitment processes you will always have telephone and personal contact, face-to-face or online, with our talent acquisition team. In addition, bank transfers and bank cards will never be requested. If you are contacted through any other process, please write to our team at [e-mail]

We promote equal opportunities in recruitment, and we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? JOIN US

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Konstantin Uhl, in charge of this vacancy.

Konstantin Uhl